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This study describes views, downloads, Altmetric scores, and citations of articles published as preprints and differences in Altmetric scores and citations of published articles by prior preprint status.

In the current parlance of evidence-based policy, indicators are increasingly called upon to inform policymakers, including in the research and innovation domain. However, few studies have scrutinized how such indicators come about in practice. We...

Everything we know about dinosaurs comes from their fossil record, and how we as humans document and interpret that. As such, our understanding of their evolution is based on what is known at any given point in time, and subject to change as new...

We are combining collaboration, funding and publishing with the help of blockchain to solve the requirements of every researcher, scientist and academic. With the help of Ethereum Smart Contracts and IPFS we manage to create the most efficient,...

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Jon TennantJust came across @scienceroot - I guess #blockchain has finally made it's way to science then, very exciting!
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In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assumption is that only the best scientists manage to publish in a highly selective tier of the most prestigious...

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Jon TennantDo you know someone in charge of hiring/funding/tenure/promotion? Do they use journal ranks in their assessments? Send them @brembs' latest paper and ask them to justify those decisions.
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Okay, mainly this caught my eye because DINOSAURS. But it does make me think about something fairly fundamental to SCIENCE in general.
Arguably, one of the greatest evolutions in the practice of...

Jon TennantCool! Someone on Facebook shared our @thePeerJ paper describing it as “Ignorance from chaos. Enlightenment from ignorance. An act of discovery verging on an act of creation.” No complaints there. 😄
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Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research, we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes. Traditionally, the focus on inequality in scientific publishing has focused on...

There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise OA as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.

Jon Tennant"Given that OA has proven an attractive business model for commercial publishers, the key predictions of OA-advocates, namely that OA would liberate both scientists and tax payers from the chains of global publishing companies, have not become true."
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